PRIMARIES: Wisconsin Obstacle Race

Since he stopped pretending to be a Republican (in 1934) and began
running on a straight Progressive ticket, Wisconsin's ambitious young
Governor Philip Fox La Follette has (1934, 1936) squeezed through
with fewer votes than the total for his Democratic and Republican
opponents. This year, while Governor La Follette was trying to hatch a
national third party to coalesce liberals against reactionaries,
Wisconsin's two-time Democratic State Treasurer Robert K. Henry
hatched a coalition of Wisconsin's conservatives against Governor La
Follette. An object lesson to all hopeful coalitionists was the result
of...